NISO Standards At Ballot
The following standards are currently at ballot by NISO voting members. All standards at ballot are available for public review and comment through the end of the ballot period. Comment online at http://www.niso.org/contact/.
More information about balloting can be found in the NISO Operating Procedures.
In order for an item to be approved so that a Working Group can be formed to pursue the proposed work, a minimum of 10% of NISO's Voting Members must express interest in a new work item. All those who express interest will be added to the Voting Pool for the proposal. Members can join the Voting Pool at any time up until the final ballot at the end of the project.
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Standards Undergoing Five Year Reviews (2010)
Voting Pools Now Open (March 1 - April 14, 2010)
NISO and ANSI procedures require that periodically maintained standards be reviewed within five years of their ANSI approval to ensure that standards remain current. For those standards under continuous maintenance, in the event that no revisions are issued for a period of four years, action to revise, reaffirm, or withdraw the standard shall be initiated. As per the NISO procedures, NISO standards due for review will have Voting Pools created in order to determine whether there is enough interest in the community to retain the standards. Upon a minimum level of 15% of NISO's membership joining a Voting Pool for a review standard, the review will commence. Voting pools for the following periodically maintained standards are now open (NISO Members can join at: http://www.niso.org/apps/org/workgroup/nisovoting/ballot.php?id=189). Comments from the public on whether these standards should be reaffirmed, revised, or withdrawn are welcome. Please provide specific details regarding any recommendations that are made. Comments can be submitted online at http://www.niso.org/contact
Voting Pools for the following standards are open March 1 - April 15, 2010:
- ANSI/NISO Z39.43-1993 (R2006), Standard Address Number (SAN) for the Publishing Industry
- ANSI/NISO Z39.71-2006, Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items
- ANSI/NISO Z39.78-2000 (R2006), Library Binding
- ANSI/NISO Z39.87-2006, Data Dictionary – Technical Metadata for Still Images
Standards Undergoing Five Year Reviews (2009)
NISO and ANSI procedures require that periodically maintained standards be reviewed within five years of their ANSI approval to ensure that standards remain current. For those standards under continuous maintenance, in the event that no revisions are issued for a period of four years, action to revise, reaffirm, or withdraw the standard shall be initiated. As per the NISO procedures, NISO standards due for review will have Voting Pools created in order to determine whether there is enough interest in the community to retain the standards. Upon a minimum level of 15% of NISO's membership joining a Voting Pool for a review standard, the review will commence. Voting pools for the following periodically maintained standards are now being developed. Comments from the public on whether these standards should be reaffirmed, revised, or withdrawn are welcome. Please provide specific details regarding any recommendations that are made. Comments can be submitted online at http://www.niso.org/contact
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Content & Collection Management Recommendation: Reaffirm This recommendation is made based on feedback of current use of this standard. You are encouraged to provide comments with your vote that might provide the Topic Committee with additional information regarding use of this standard. |
ANSI/NISO Z39.18 | 2005 | Scientific and Technical Reports - Preparation, Presentation, and Preservation |
Ballot Closed Number of votes cast in voting pool: 9 of 14 (64%)
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Content & Collection Management Recommendation: Reaffirm This recommendation is made based on current use of this standard; in addition, this is a revision of an earlier standard, and the Topic Committee has not been received information regarding need for further revision at this time. |
ANSI/NISO Z39.19 | 2005 | Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies |
Ballot Closed Number of votes cast in voting pool: 17 of 27 (63%)
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Content & Collection Management Recommendation: Reaffirm This recommendation is made based on current use of this standard; in addition, this is a revision of an earlier standard, and the Topic Committee has not been received information regarding need for further revision at this time. |
ANSI/NISO Z39.29 | 2005 | Bibliographic References |
Ballot Closed Number of votes cast in voting pool: 17 of 27 (63%)
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Content & Collection Management Recommendation: Reaffirm This recommendation is made based on current activity related to this standard. At this time, the whole DOI system (syntax, resolution, metadata, and unifying infrastructures) is proceeding through ISO, with an expected publication in 2010. Following reaffirmation and upon finalization of the ISO effort, the Topic Committee will be studying the standard more closely to determine if revision might be needed for Z39.84. Feedback from the Z39.84 Maintenance Agency (the International DOI Foundation) regarding some changes needed to the standard has already been received. You are encouraged to provide comments with your vote that might provide the TC with additional information regarding needs for a revision or about current use of the standard. Please note that a revision can begin at any time following the reaffirmation of the current standard. |
ANSI/NISO Z39.84 | 2005 | Syntax for the Digital Object Identifier |
Ballot Closed Number of votes cast in voting pool: 24 of 36 (67%)
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Maintenance Agency: OCLC Recommendation: Reaffirm This recommendation is made based on feedback of current use of this standard. You are encouraged to provide comments with your vote that might provide the Topic Committee with additional information regarding use of this standard. |
ANSI/NISO Z39.88 | 2004 | The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services |
Ballot Closed Number of votes cast in voting pool: 21 of 27 (78%)
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